Life Paradoxes Quotes

#1. I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.

Allyson Felix

#2. One of life's many paradoxes is that the more we focus on ourselves and our own well-being, to the neglect of our neighbor, the more unsettled and unhappy we become.

Jonathan Morris

#3. I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#4. Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.

Ellen Hopkins

#5. Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

Millicent Fenwick

#6. We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

Thomas Merton

#7. One of the paradoxes of life is that the things that initially make you successful are rarely the things that keep you successful.

John C. Maxwell

#8. Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

Fernando Pessoa

#9. The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Soren Kierkegaard

#10. A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.

Boris Fishman

#11. I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility ...

Charlotte Bronte

#12. Although one may direct the future or past through the onerous linkages of temporal cause and effect, riding the breaking waves of the present and never once overstepping it, the better way is to go there and do it yourself.

Mary-Jean Harris

#13. The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#14. And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.

Howard Thurman

#15. I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

Jonathan Kieran

#16. Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music

Haruki Murakami

#17. Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.

Douglas A. Blackmon

#18. It is interesting that the black BMW is the preferred car of so many assholes.

Demetri Martin

#19. Writing evinces the soul of an active mind and every era produced persons whom devoted their being to exploring the mysteries of life, seeking to discern answers pertaining how to resolve the complexities and paradoxes of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#20. Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets, listen. Hear it? It's a love song.
For whom?
You are loved.

David Foster Wallace

#21. Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

Fernand Braudel

#22. All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.

Nancy Friday

#23. Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I'm left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon.

Elisabetta Canalis

#24. This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

F.L. Lucas

#25. There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#26. One of the great paradoxes of life is that self-awareness breeds anxiety.

Irvin D. Yalom

#27. They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry. Their senses were still sharp to the ridiculousness of the industrial life.

John Steinbeck

#28. It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#29. Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.

Lisa Wingate